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grows out of · the sign
Every covenant gets a sign; this one is cut into the body of the family that carries the promise.
symbol · Old Testament
A sign cut into the body marking the covenant family.
grows out of · the sign
Every covenant gets a sign; this one is cut into the body of the family that carries the promise.
points forward to · the sign debated
Acts 15 is a fight over exactly this sign: must gentiles take it to belong? The council says no, and the covenant family stops being one ethnicity.